UP info centres solving social problems
Many people in rural areas, where Facebook and Twitter are still less familiar, have found the Union Information Service Centers (UISCs) more convenient and effective online platform for precise reasons, specially for getting solutions to various types of social problems.
Entrepreneurs of different information centres are regularly sharing and exchanging information with local administrations through online blogs to offer public necessary solutions to many social problems like polygamy, dowry and unemployment.
During a recent visit to different information centres in Narayanganj district, the news agency correspondent found people standing there in queues to get information on various services, including agriculture, education and health. Some people were waiting to collect different government's forms downloaded for them by the UISCs operators. Many also came to get results of different public examinations.
Some information centres in Narayanganj were also used as effective media for recruiting necessary staff for the district administration to carry out different duties during the past population census.
National Project Director of the Access to Information (A2I) Programme of the Prime Minister Office Nazrul Islam Khan now 4,500 people out of the 9,000 entrepreneurs of the UISCs are regularly writing for the blogs, offering public necessary information and solutions to many issues.
Narayanganj Deputy Commissioner Md Shamsur Rahman said the centres are playing important role in solving social problems when various types of services are also generating more income for the operators of the UISCs.
Consultant of the A2I Programme of the Prime Minister Office Manik Mahmud said online blogs of the UISCs are designed to make it effective for solving different problem of rural people.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on November 11, 2010 launched the information centres at 4501 unions with auspicious aims of establishing an information super highway, providing people easy access to basic services and information about agriculture, health, education, legal aid, human rights and employment.
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